ARM: 7467/1: mutex: use generic xchg-based implementation for ARMv6+
authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Fri, 13 Jul 2012 18:15:40 +0000 (19:15 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 2 Oct 2012 16:47:55 +0000 (09:47 -0700)
commit54d4d42b2558d2053519852dfef7ded62775e058
tree5db9bd8156463ea5c31c8476ccb904def708c5dc
parentb15ab4ac6ae748d3552b0cb112dff5c9c567d4ca
ARM: 7467/1: mutex: use generic xchg-based implementation for ARMv6+

commit a76d7bd96d65fa5119adba97e1b58d95f2e78829 upstream.

The open-coded mutex implementation for ARMv6+ cores suffers from a
severe lack of barriers, so in the uncontended case we don't actually
protect any accesses performed during the critical section.

Furthermore, the code is largely a duplication of the ARMv6+ atomic_dec
code but optimised to remove a branch instruction, as the mutex fastpath
was previously inlined. Now that this is executed out-of-line, we can
reuse the atomic access code for the locking (in fact, we use the xchg
code as this produces shorter critical sections).

This patch uses the generic xchg based implementation for mutexes on
ARMv6+, which introduces barriers to the lock/unlock operations and also
has the benefit of removing a fair amount of inline assembly code.

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Reported-by: Shan Kang <kangshan0910@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/arm/include/asm/mutex.h